title: Intra- and interday reliability of spine rasterstereography.
abstract: To determine intra- and interday reliability of spine rasterstereographic system Formetric 4D with and without reflective markers. Twenty-six healthy volunteers (M group) had two markers placed in correspondence of vertebra prominens and intergluteal cleft, and 24 volunteers (NM group) were assessed without markers. All participants were analyzed two times in the same day and one time on a separate day. Trunk length, kyphotic angle, lordotic angle, pelvic inclination, kyphotic and lordotic apex, right and left lateral deviation, flèche cervicale and lombaire, trunk imbalance, pelvic tilt, inflection point, rotation correction, right and left surface rotation, pelvic torsion, and trunk torsion were measured. Intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and Cronbach Alpha (C α ) were calculated. In M group, for intra-, interday, and overall evaluations, the higher reliability coefficients were 0.971, 0.963, and 0.958 (ICC) and 0.987, 0.983, and 0.985 (C α ) for trunk length, kyphotic angle, and lordotic apex, respectively; while in NM group, they were 0.978, 0.982, and 0.972 and 0.989, 0.991, and 0.991 for trunk length. In M group, the lower values were 0.598, 0.515, and 0.534 (ICC) and 0.742, 0.682, and 0.784 (C α ) for trunk and pelvic torsion and in NM group 0.561, 0.537, and 0.461 and 0.731, 0.695, and 0.729 for left lateral deviation. The reliability of most parameters was excellent.
authors.affiliation: Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome Foro Italico, Piazza Lauro De Bosis 15, 00135 Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guidetti
authors.forename: Valerio
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bonavolontà
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tito
authors.forename: Victor M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Reis
authors.forename: Maria Chiara
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Gallotta
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Baldari
mesh_terms: D001830:Body Surface Area; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013131:Spine / Q000473:pathology*; D055815:Young Adult